DOVER — Famed radio station WTSN sports reporter and all around community supporter Jock MacKenzie died Monday at his retirement home in Florida.

MacKenzie was 88. It was reported he died of complications related to pneumonia.

MacKenzie retired from his radio work at WTSN in 1992, where for a time he was co-owner and sports director for Garrison City Broadcasting in Dover. He was the founder of the UNH Sports Network, which he donated to the university, and was the radio voice of UNH football and hockey for several decades.

He was honored numerous times as a National and N.H. Sportscaster of the Year and the prestigious Profile of Service Award from UNH.

He was also named Dover “Citizen of the Year” for his efforts to construct the original Dover Ice Arena.

He retired to Florida in the early ’90s and continued his love of sports with a weekly blog on Palm Coast golf.

According to his biographical information, MacKenzie was born May 11, 1925, in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

He started his hockey broadcasting career with the Berlin Maroons, known as the fabled “Flying Frenchmen.”

He served as the Maroons main broadcaster for 10 years while a staff member at WMOU in Berlin. He moved to WTSN where he formed the University of New Hampshire Sports Network. He served as the “Voice” of UNH hockey and football for 35 years.

Don Briand, of WOKQ radio in Dover, recalled the 19 years he worked with Mackenzie at WTSN as a wonderful experience.

“He was a mentor of mine and showed me the ropes of doing play-by-play sports starting back in 1974,” Briand said. One of the stories I remember of all he told, Briand said, is that in World War II “ he went through training to become a member of the mountain skiing unit. And when he completed training he was sent to the South Pacific.”

Continuing to recall MacKenzie, Briand noted. “It is hard to be losing these legends.”

Paul LeBlanc worked with MacKenzie at WTSN for a bit more than 30 years. During that time LeBlanc was the operations manager for the station.

“Jock was a really good guy,” LeBlanc said, when asked to recall his time with MacKenzie. “It is almost too simple to say but he was an all around good guy.

“He always came to work with a smile on his face,” he said. “He had the gift of always making people feel they were important.”

“I remember the Christmas parties at the station when Jock would address the employees,” he said. “He would have the Ray Coniff Singers song about the real purpose of Christmas in the background. He would point out every person on the staff and talk about what they were doing and how well they were doing. He would never say a word about himself. And that was how he always was. He never talked about himself.”

And MacKenzie loved what he was doing here in Dover.

“With his voice and his talent,” said LeBlanc, he could have gone to any larger market.